How do I stop pulling my golf shot left?
- Work On Keeping Your Swing Closed Longer | One common cause of pulling your ball is opening your shot too early and not keeping your back to your intended target long enough. ...
- Work On Your Backswing | Your backswing often determines the success of your shot.
Why am I pulling my golf ball left?
Why are my golf shots curving to the left?
How do I stop pulling wedges?
Why am I hitting my irons to the left?
How do I stop pushing my golf shots right?
How do I fix the curve in my golf swing?
Why do my golf shots always go right?
Why do golf clubs pull?
If you boil it down to a single sentence, a pull happens because the club face is closed at impact. That is the easy part. The difficult part is figuring out why the club face is coming to a closed position at impact. In general your club face is closed at impact for 2 main reasons: 1 Over The Top – you have too steep of a swing plane, causing everything to be closed at impact, which leads to the banana slice 2 Over Rotating The Club Face – you have an excessive amount of club rotation in the downswing
What is the first move in golf?
Your first move when you start the swing, your takeaway, usually dictates how your downswing will go. Many golfers, when they are struggling with their golf game, immediately try to fix what is wrong at the top of their swing or during their downswing.
How to fade a golf ball?
1. Pull Fade/Slice. A pull fade/slice is when the ball starts left and then moves back toward athe right. You may be thinking that this is what you want your ball to do, but the problem is when you pull the ball just to fade it back towards the target, you lose a lot of distance and accuracy.
Why is my club face closed?
In general your club face is closed at impact for 2 main reasons: Over The Top – you have too steep of a swing plane, causing everything to be closed at impact, which leads to the banana slice. Over Rotating The Club Face – you have an excessive amount of club rotation in the downswing.
Why is a good stance important?
A good stance allows for a controlled and athletic swing, but a poor stance forces you to reach or adjust your swing when the ball is too close or too far away. 5. Swing Plane. If it is your swing that is causing you to pull the ball, then you are probably coming from too far over the top on your shots.
Checkpoints for Practice
Swinging down hard with the arms causes them to release, shutting the club face & causing a miss to the left
Video Transcription: Missing Shots Left
One of the most common misses in golfers learning the one plane swing is pulls or misses to the left. This is a very, very common cause. I see it all the time, every day that I teach. It's a very, very simple thing to fix, but you just have to understand what's causing this.
What is a left-hander hitting?
A left-hander whose shots start to the left of the target line and continue flying left, on a straight line ( not curving left), is hitting a push. Again, the divot, if there is one, will match the ball's direction.
What is the divot in golf?
The divot, if there is one, will match the ball's direction. Here is Roger Gunn's checklist for a right-handed golfer hitting a pull: Grip: Not normally a factor. Set-up: Watch out for aiming too far left, or your shoulders might be pointing too far left. Ball Position: The ball might be too far forward (toward the front foot) in your stance.
What is a backswing in golf?
Backswing: You could be taking the club back too far inside, pulling the club away from the target line. The club should track a gentle arc on the way back, not a rapid arc to the inside of the target line. Downswing: The club might be swinging too much to left field at impact.
What is the difference between a backswing and a downswing?
Backswing: The club is likely being pushed outside the target line on the way back . The club should track a gentle arc on the way back. The club should be over your shoulder at the top, nor over your head. Downswing: Your arms might be pushing away from the body at the transition into the downswing.
Who is Brent Kelley?
Brent Kelley. Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism. our editorial process. Brent Kelley. Updated April 18, 2019. Are you hitting lots of golf shots that start out left of the target and continue flying left, on a straight line, until they land left ...
Ball position
The most common reason for a consistent pull is a poor ball position. An easy way to demonstrate how the club works on an arc through impact is laying down balls as pictured below.
Downswing drill
If your alignment and ball position are both good, the issue is likely with the swing itself. The first port of call would be to make sure you are not throwing the club outside the line at the start of the downswing.
What happens when you hit a golf ball too far forward?
When the golf ball is too far forward in your stance, the club face has more time to release before impact, causing a closed club face at the point of contact and a pulled shot.
What happens if you hold your golf club too tight?
More often than not, such a tight grip will cause the club face to close during the downswing and through impact.
What does it mean when you pull an iron?
As previously mentioned, pulled iron shots are a direct result of making impact with the outside cover of the golf ball. Occasionally, this occurs when a players’ swing is coming from “over the top.”
Who is Alex Matthews?
Alex Matthews. Alex is a budding attorney, freelance writer, and golf enthusiast. Though he has never competed professionally, he is a former member of the South Texas Junior PGA Tour and a past winner of the Junior Club Championship at Great Hills Golf Club.
latest video -- iron pulls
Surprised you didn't mention lie angle, which is probably more critical with irons than it is with woods. The lie angle, I've been told, can affect direction.
Iron Pulls
Gary#N#Yes lie angles are important. But lie angles being off will result in if to up right are hooks and if to flat fades. Generally pulls are the result of swing flaw such as alignment , coming over the top with a closed face at impact etc.
Lie angles, good call
Gary, that is a good observation as it could be lie angles that are too upright. BTW, it has been observed that many amatures actually suffer a more common push/slice because of lies that are too flat.
The eyes have it
Fine to talk about set up as an ongoing issue but why is no one talking about the cause of the set up issue. People have a dominant eye and no one seems to be talking about how that dominant eye is the root casue of most of the set up problems. I am a lefty with a dominant right eye. I am guessing most righties are left eye dominant.
Dominant eye
Blugolds, we have actually discussed the dominant eye and how the eyes can fool us several times in the past and you make some helpful points in your comments. Most picka spot in front of the ball the way Jack Nicklaus taught and Surge recommends but others pick a spot behind or even both behind and in front.
One quick note, most people
One quick note, most people actually have their dominant eye the same as their dominant hand. What RM says below is very helpful information. It can definitely make a difference in how we set up.
NEW CLUB BUILDING PROJECT
Robert: Here's the latest on my experimentation's. I decided to switch back to steel shafts with my irons. With the newer colors (RED), light weight irons, their appearance is close to graphite. I'm using the same old heads, Callaway Fusion Hybrid style, with sensicore inserts and jumbo chamois grips.
Wally-Wally
I consistently pull my driver shots way left. Straight left. I think I am swinging across and coming too out to in. What are some good drills or tips to stop doing so. Thanks!
cnosil
I consistently pull my driver shots way left. Straight left. I think I am swinging across and coming too out to in. What are some good drills or tips to stop doing so. Thanks!
DaveP043
The ball starts where your clubface is aimed, and curves away from the path. A straight pull means out-to-in path, and clubface square to that path (left of target, just like the path).
hckymeyer
When I am hitting driver well it's generally a straight flight, but I pull it. Rather than going through a long process of fixing or rebuilding a swing, I now just aim farther right on my setup and usually pull it down the middle (if I'm playing well).
blackyatx
I recently had this same issue after hitting dead straight. The answer is, it is complicated, but came down to biomechanics. Do you hit everything straight left all the way down to your lowest wedge? If the answer is yes, you have early extension contributing.
